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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said it had opened infringement proceedings against France, Malta, Latvia, Portugal and Slovakia as a result of their incomplete or incorrect transposition of the EU's framework decision on the European arrest warrant. "The European arrest warrant is a simplified cross-border judicial procedure to surrender a requested person for the purpose of pro...

Brett Ansel, police chief for the City of Luna Pier for the past three-and-a-half years, is retiring from his post this week, ending a long and successful career in law enforcement that spans 41 years. Ansel, who turned 64 on Nov. 14, worked his last day in the office Monday. He officially steps down on Sunday from this lakeshore community of 1,300 residents. More:John Poe takes over as po...

Voters go to the polls at Christ Episcopal Church in Travis County on Nov. 3, 2020. A law that adds a number of new restrictions and criminal penalties related to voting kicks in today in Texas. The law, Senate Bill 1, was the cause of months of tension between state lawmakers. Democrats accused Republicans of trying to stifle the votes of communities of color. Republicans claimed their eff...

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On November 19, 1969, the CSS Hudson slipped through the frigid waters of Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia and out into the open ocean. The research vessel was embarking on what many of the marine scientists on board thought of as the last great, uncharted oceanic voyage: The first com...

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz in a press conference last week As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Washington on the most significant abortion case to reach the court in decades, Israel’s health minister laid out his plans to simplify what he called Israel’s “chauvinistic” abortion process and allow women to terminate a pregnancy within its first 12 weeks without approval by a commi...

NC law targeting 'Carolina Squat' for pickup trucks takes effect Some new laws took effect in North Carolina on Wednesday, including one that forbids drivers from raising the front of their vehicle. The modification is commonly referred to as the "Carolina Squat." According to the law, a vehicle would be in violation "if the height of the front fender is 4 or more inches greater than the hei...

This article has 229 words with a read time of approximately 1 minute and 8 seconds. CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in the Queen City Thursday morning to talk about the White House’s newly-signed infrastructure bill. The vice president departed Air Force Two after it landed at Charlotte Douglas International Airport around 10:45 a.m. She was greeted by North Car...

Welcome back to the Big Law Business column on the changing legal marketplace written by me, Roy Strom. This week, we look at what demographic changes in law schools and Big Law firms say about a Big Law objection to hiring more lawyers. Sign up to receive this column in your inbox most Thursday mornings. I’ve been asking law firm leaders if there’s room in their economic models to hire more ...

Now there’s a second site in Alabama where FedEx packages have been found dumped. Still, don’t anybody go scavenging through the Alabama woods for unopened FedEx boxes. That is not safe during deer-hunting season. We have more on the second package-dumping site on today’s news briefing. We also have the death of a former deputy in the line of duty and an Alabama man’s guilty plea related to t...

Child care providers in New York are often paid with paper checks from their local social services district sent the old-fashioned way: in the mail. The system, lawmakers this year felt, was due for an upgrade. Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday approved a measure that is meant to update the payment system for child care provided to kids who are eligible to receive a subsidy by offering a direct-...